Dressing for Safety

In fact, that's one of the things about African style hair, I'd heard. A lot of people pale enough to pass still have the traditional hair, and it was considered a marker. That kind of thing makes me feel eepy. "OMG, we almost treated you like a human being! Thank heaven we could notice that your hair was kinkier than ours!"

What most freaks me out about it was how it became perfectly normal and natural for black people to do things to straighten their hair, and it didn't often look *good*, it just looked less like ordinary black people's hair. What doubly freaked me was in the Autobiography of Malcolm X where he said that in his time, *every* black man straightened his hair... and *no one* ever said anything nice about how their hair looked. It was just what one did.

You have hair like Hermione, eh? Yes, I remember that from a picture I saw of you once. You kinda looked to me like Professor Trelawney, but with Hermione's hair.

Hermione's un-tamable hair makes me think she could be black. Nowhere in the books does it ever say she's white.

In fact, I prefer black Hermione. It would make her indignant reaction at the slavery of house elves make a LOT more sense, and would eliminate the "white savior" aspect of S.P.E.W. that a white Hermione creates.

White spot? Please explain.

This link is an explanation of dog genetics -- apparently a "white spot" is a dog's coat having a region of white in it. And an ALL white coat is potentially bad (it's albinism), often leading to problems like deafness because some of the relevant pigments are normally active in the inner ear.

LOL, so Draco is so domesticated he's lost any real survival skills? :-D

As a woman, Hermione already is part of an oppressed class, though. And one who is forced to do men's household chores for them. I see a similarity there ...

That said, black Hermione would be cool regardless of S.P.E.W. I would have liked for her to be black in the movies. The actor's hair was very disappointing.